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| 13354380697 | Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |  | 0 |
| 13354383782 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country |  | 1 |
| 13354389273 | Militarism | belief that the nation needs a larger military |  | 2 |
| 13354393512 | Alliances | agreements between nations to aid and protect one another |  | 3 |
| 13354399841 | World War I | 1914-1918 | 4 | |
| 13354399842 | World War I | A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918. |  | 5 |
| 13354414338 | Western Front of WWI | French vs. Germans and slow Trench Warfare |  | 6 |
| 13354418408 | No Man's Land | Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous |  | 7 |
| 13354422536 | Mustard Gas | a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs |  | 8 |
| 13354428259 | Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war. |  | 9 |
| 13354431822 | Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort |  | 10 |
| 13354437102 | India in WWI | Indians joined the British army, and British promised more self-government but then lied and were once again treated as 2nd class citizens. Raised Indian Nationalism and more people joined the revolt against the British | 11 | |
| 13354446309 | Armistice | an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce. |  | 12 |
| 13354448811 | Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |  | 13 |
| 13354452423 | Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations. |  | 14 |
| 13354455181 | League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations |  | 15 |
| 13354459534 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans |  | 16 |
| 13354468329 | German Depression | -experience inflation in 1922-23 -serious social problems -huge unemployment numbers (3 mil by march) -gave rise to extremist parties |  | 17 |
| 13354476070 | Geneva Convention | A set of international standards of conduct for treating prisoners of war, established in 1929 |  | 18 |
| 13354479854 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another |  | 19 |
| 13354483608 | Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal | Founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey (1881-1938); as military commander and leader of the Turkish national movement, he made Turkey into a secular state. |  | 20 |
| 13354486478 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI |  | 21 |
| 13354490013 | Russian Revolution | The revolution against the Tsarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917. |  | 22 |
| 13354493092 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). |  | 23 |
| 13354496019 | Bolsheviks | A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 |  | 24 |
| 13354500232 | Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |  | 25 |
| 13354505624 | Fascism | A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition |  | 26 |
| 13354510481 | Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933 |  | 27 |
| 13354512864 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. |  | 28 |
| 13354516333 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition |  | 29 |
| 13354518611 | Benito Mussolini | Fascist Dictator of Italy that at first used bullying to gain power, then never had full power. |  | 30 |
| 13354521861 | Hideki Tojo | This general was premier of Japan during World War II while this man was dictator of the country. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor and played a major role in Japan's military decisions until he resigned in 1944 |  | 31 |
| 13354525578 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. |  | 32 |
| 13354527856 | Appeasement | Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |  | 33 |
| 13354532975 | Invasion of Poland | Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and France declared war, starting World War II |  | 34 |
| 13354535298 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939 |  | 35 |
| 13354537012 | Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. | | 36 |
| 13354539532 | Stalingrad | City in Russia, site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd. |  | 37 |
| 13354541962 | Lebensraum | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people |  | 38 |
| 13354544065 | Ubermensch | The superman that Nietzsche believed would enforce new ethical values/morals to control the masses. |  | 39 |
| 13354549728 | Dresden bombing | Allied bombing of German city with hundreds of thousands of civilians dead |  | 40 |
| 13354551579 | Firebombing of Tokyo | Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces; took place during the Pacific campaigns of WWII and included the most destructive bombing raid in history (1942-1945). |  | 41 |
| 13354553196 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II. |  | 42 |
| 13354561373 | Nanjing Massacre | (1937) the murder of as many as 300,000 Chinese men, women, and children by Japanese troops |  | 43 |
| 13354564472 | Island Hopping | A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others |  | 44 |
| 13354567623 | Genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group |  | 45 |
| 13354569482 | Final Solution | Final solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers |  | 46 |
| 13354571908 | Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war |  | 47 |
| 13354586021 | Pan-Arabism | movement in which Arabs sought to unite all Arabs into one state |  | 48 |
| 13354594703 | Zimmerman Telegram | A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S. |  | 49 |
| 13354598114 | Reparations | Payment for war damages |  | 50 |
| 13354603894 | Armenian Genocide | the Turkish government organized the department of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and over a million were murdered or starved - one of the first genocides of the 20th centuries |  | 51 |
| 13354608370 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty in which Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans. This ended Russian participation in the war (1918). |  | 52 |
| 13354617052 | Mandate System | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I; to be administered under League of Nations supervision. | 53 | |
| 13354635393 | Keynesian economics | Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes, stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms. |  | 54 |
| 13354640397 | Nuremburg Laws (1935) | deprived German Jews of citizenship, defined as Jewish any person with one Jewish grandparent, prohibited Jews from publishing any written material, acting on stage or screen, teaching, exhibiting artworks, giving concerts, or belonging to professional organizations |  | 55 |
| 13354646084 | Guernica | a Spanish town that was brutally bombed and was full of innocent civilians it was supposed to encourage fear, Picasso painted a famous painting capturing Guernica |  | 56 |
| 13354726112 | Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter |  | 57 |
| 13354729641 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis. |  | 58 |
| 13354746835 | Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | A secret agreement between the Germans and the Russians that said that they would not attack each other |  | 59 |
